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Silver Member Username: Arnold_layne
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| Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 11:11 am: |
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In case drop-outs persist with the new cable: there are a few discs with a naughty little copy protection that can cause this. Example: Van Morrison - What's wrong with this picture".
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broken back Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 08:05 pm: |
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howdy again...thanks for the advice. i made my own digi jumper with standard RG6 and F-to-RCA screw-on connectors. unfortunately still having random audio drop-outs. maybe you folks could give some recommendations if i spell out the details:
what i have: Technics 5.1 audio receiver / Phillips DVD-Player/Recorder / Hughes DirecTivo. the DirecTivo is connected via optical & have never had an audio problem with it. the DVD-R is connected via my handmade digi coax jumper.
i used to have a Pioneer DVD player connected via optical. very very rarely i would have random audio drop-outs listening to an audio cd. never had trouble with DVDs. now i've 'upgraded' to this Philips dvd-r which has no optical out, only coax out for digi audio. now i cant listen to an entire audio disc without some random audio drop-out(s). makes me suspect that there's some fault with the Technics receiver. Opinions? haven't yet tried to reproduce the audio drop-outs via stereo analog. may have to settle for analog though if these digi drop-outs persist on audio discs.
facts: the audio drop-outs are definitely random. volume doesnt seem to matter...low or high volume...still drop-outs. no drop-outs during dvd playback...only audio cd playback. have noticed occasional high-frequency static pops while listening to audio cds.
well...i'm stumped. opinions? would love to know what you all make of this.
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New member Username: Scotthall
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 07:13 am: |
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WOW. This is an amazing web site. I thought I knew a lot about electronics but I will bow down to most of you "Geniuses". Ignore the comments made by people saying that you are "ego maniacs" or "loser" which was made by an uknown person aka LOSER. But, you have helped many people out including myslef. So keep up the posting.
My question is. RCA plus or Coaxial Plugs have many types of metal plateing such as SILVER, BRONZE, GOLD. Is there a big differnece between the plateings and I'm guessing GOLD is the best one unless I'm wrong. |
New member Username: Scotthall
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 07:40 am: |
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Oh crap I forgot to ask.
Does 1 RCA plug from the DVD Player's COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUT to the Reciever's COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO IN work the same or better than using all 6 RCA Plugs including the SUBWOOFER OUT into the Reciever? And if so how does that work. Wouldn't 6 be better than 1. And also why would they make the 6 RCA plugs for on the back of DVD Players or Recievers? Why not just have the COXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO?
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Silver Member Username: Arnold_layne
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 03:12 pm: |
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Gold is the best to avoiding corrosion on plugs. But perhaps even more important is the fit, regardless material.
The 5.1 analogue interconnect is used in two cases:
1. Hi-rez audio (SACD or DVD-A), which is not handled by coaxial (S/PDIF) transfer protocol.
2. DVD player's chips (DSP and DACs) are wastly superior, and you wish to bypass receiver's signal processing.
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| Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 10:31 pm: |
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I just ran a coax cable from my PC's digital out on my soundblaster audigy sound card to the digital audio in on my Onkyo DR-C500. Sound from PC is fantastic through DR-C500, but now when I switch my audio source back to TV I get a hum and must disconnect the PC connection in order to play TV audio through the DR-C500. TV is connected via component audio cabes to analog audio in jacks. Any Suggestions??? |
broken back Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 08:49 pm: |
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howdy again. just an update here...maybe this will help some folks out....
i was having random audio drop outs after connecting a dvd player to my audio receiver via digi coax. turns out that my receiver can only properly handle a 44.1 kHz digital audio signal. fortunately the dvd player has an option to change it's digi audio output from 96 kHz down to 48 kHz. i guess that, technically, my receiver cant handle this signal either...but now the audio is error free. best of all...i didnt just give up & settle for analog sound. guess i could handle an upgraded receiver. |
Matthew J. Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:04 pm: |
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In response to Eric Ramsey's Post, it is NOT true that digital coaxial cables are solid wire while "normal" RCA are stranded. Take a look at the picture of "digital" Monster Cable at the following link:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-CYAyU8QyNQd/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=37500&I=119IDLHM
It is clearly stranded. Personally, I think Monster Cable is a waste of money. My personal experience, however, has been that "digital" coaxial cable does seem to work better for 5.1 audio than "normal" RCA cables. My guess, though, is that this is because the "digital" cables are just higher quality versions of "normal" cables. |
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| Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:05 pm: |
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In response to Eric Ramsey's post, it is NOT true that digital coaxial cables are solid wire while "normal" RCA are stranded. Take a look at the picture of "digital" Monster Cable at the following link:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-CYAyU8QyNQd/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=37500&I=119IDLHM
It is clearly stranded. Personally, I think Monster Cable is a waste of money. My personal experience, however, has been that "digital" coaxial cable does seem to work better for 5.1 audio than "normal" RCA cables. My guess, though, is that this is because the "digital" cables are just higher quality versions of "normal" cables. |
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Silver Member Username: Eramsey
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| Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:18 pm: |
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Matthew, Most digital coaxial cable use a solid conductor. You are right about the Monster though they use a standed conductor. I don't know Monster's reasoning for this. But most digital signals today that are not sent through fiber optic cable are sent through a cable with a solid center conductor which is the best design for digital transmissions according to enginerring experts. E.Ramsey |
Terry B. Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 06:52 pm: |
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On the back of my DVD player I have a "Coaxial Digital Audio" connection.Can I plug the transmitter for my wireless headphones into it? |
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| Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 06:57 pm: |
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I have a DELL sound card that claims to have an SPDIF output. Is this the same as coaxial digital output? There is only one output on the DELL sound card (how would stereo work with a single RCA cable?). My computer is about 20 feet from my stereo and I want to run a cable. It looks like there is a red laser in the SPDIF output. Is it really a TSOLInk? The DELL website and documentation are useless for figuring this out. Has anyone made this kind of connection? |
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| Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 04:00 pm: |
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I have just purchased a Philips HDD120 mp3 player which claims to accept input from both optical and coaxial connections but on the unit itself it has only one input jack labelled optical line in. Tested this with an optical-out source and it works a treat. Before I blow it accidentally, can I put a 3.5mm coaxial into the same socket?
Manual is hopeless in describing what sort of leads I can use with it!
Thanks in advance.. |
broken back Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2005 - 12:47 pm: |
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wow...that's a funky jack on yr Philips HDD120. the manual says its a combo jack...optical & 3.5mm analog stereo in. looks like the 3.5mm really should be inserted in the same port as the optical...be gentle. |
Jason S Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2005 - 02:02 pm: |
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I bought a lower-end DVD player about a year ago. The rear panel has a digital coaxial output and the standard left/right RCA outputs. Does the digital coax output provide 5.1 digital surround through that single connection to a receiver? Or do I need to buy a new DVD player with the 6 surround sound outputs on the back? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 07:39 am: |
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Hi
This is a new take on the whole thing and I'd be very grateful if anybody could give me a yeah or nay.
I have a DVD player with Coax digital output, and old surround amp which is just prologic and is out of the equation pretty much, and a pc with coax digital inputs and outputs. Running a dvd in my pc doesnt seem to give surround through my 5.1 speakers, but running games and tests etc on the soundcard does give me surround. If I hook my external DVD player through the Coaxial Digital in will I then be able to play Dolby digital 5.1 from the external DVD through the PC and out through its 5.1 in surround.
it should be noted that - there is no direct link from the dvd to the surround sub & speakers merely from the sound card... so it would have to go through the PC
You can tell me I'm an idiot now.... I'm not exactly blessed with a great brain!
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| Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 01:39 pm: |
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I have a problem, its kinda stupid, but i haven't found a solution to it yet. I have Logitech THX 5.1 speackers, and i wanted to hook them up to my television, but my television is old, and has only analog rca outs, while my speaker system only has digital inputs, coax and optical. Is there some sort of adapter/converter to fix this for me, and can someone please give me a link please? i think i've seen some for 100 bucks or something, but i think those things do more than i need, and they're way too expensive. Thanks so much all. |
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| Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 12:06 pm: |
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Hi i need a little help if possible.
i have a cctv camera with audio that connects to my tv via a scart connection, i have brought another camera and a quad box problem is i can not connect the cameras to the quad box via scart, any suggestions? |
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| Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 08:28 pm: |
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Different specs, same type of situation.
I recently purchased a professional Numark karoake player. The owners manual requests a "composite RCA cable" for the video output. I used the same RCA cable from the last karaoke player, but my video comes out in black-and-white, so bad that my singers can barely read the words to the songs. I know the cable is good because it worked on my old player. Could this an issue with the unit, or could I be losing signal if the cable is low-capacity? Should I try a higher grade (75+ ohm) cable? I'm not sure what the ohm capacity on the current cable is. |
SonyCentral Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 01:58 am: |
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You should probably check the type of video .. Can your screen handle both NTSC and PAL? Can it do both.. and have you got composite cables plugged in the wrong holes.. ie red to blue what have you... |
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| Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 12:36 pm: |
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I am a young electronics engineering student.Pls what is the difference between an RF cable and a coaxial cable. |
D Singh Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 02:16 am: |
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fredalapa - i'm not sure whether there is a difference. A coaxial cable is one in which the dielectric compound (used to increase capacitance by decreasing the net electric field within the capacitor) runs "co-axial" to the wire conducting the signal, i.e. the axis of the dielectric runs parallel to the axis of the copper conductor (as an engineer student you should appreciate this). So, in actuality, pretty much all shielded A/V cables (digital coaxial, RCA, RG-6, NOT fiber optic) are coaxial. So, to answer your question, I think the larger umbrella term is Coaxial and RF is a type of Coaxial cable. |
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| Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 02:25 am: |
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For Rishijain - I personally wouldn't do so. Pretty much all TV channels you get will come in stereo (unless you have digital cable with an HD tuner or satellite with an HD tuner or an HD tuner recieving off-air content). It would be pointless to try to get all 5.1 channels playing a stereo feed. I would use those speakers solely for DVD purposes. If you want to spend big bucks, however, buy a reciever/amplifier. And yes, pretty much all analog to digital converters will be in similar price ranges. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:21 pm: |
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Here the link to answer all kinds of cable questions and definitions:
http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/iseo-rgbtcspd/learningcenter/home/cables.html |
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| Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 04:31 pm: |
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Here's my SOS: I just purchased a Panasonic home theater system. It has Optical input for TV audio, but my cable box only has Coaxial output for Digital audio.
Is there a way for the Coaxial output and Optical input to commune? |
Karsten Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 - 06:10 pm: |
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Just to clear up the original topic of whether normal rca cables handle the same as coaxial cables... RCA cables use a certain type of "weave" which handles analog signals quite clearly, but when used for "digital transfer", which basically is a load of signal, one gets frequent "skips". In other words, the RCA cables lose the signal, or gaps occur. A simple low cost coaxial cable, yes there is off brands, will solve the issue of audio quality and loss. Conclution: don't try to save a few bucks by substiting a regular RCA analog cable for a coaxial data cable.
As for the CAT5 option, that is really not tested, but I would not recommend splicing a cord and still expecting great audio. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 11:21 am: |
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i posted this in a separate thread:
'hi. i would like to record dvd sound onto my computer.
i have a cheap little dvd player with an optical out. it's a bog standard coax out.
the options for digital out on the dvd player are: dolby digital (pcm), mpeg (bitstream) and dts (bitstream).
the other end is more complicated. i own a multi!wav pro24 soundcard. details can be found here: http://www.midi-classics.com/p10062.htm
i have only ever used the digital toslink. however, there is an s/pdif optical in.
can anyone give me advice if there is any chance of connecting these two ?'
i'm not a beginner and i know the difference between analogue and digital and i know an rca plug when i see one.
i'm just looking for some advice regarding this s/pidf coax plug. i've spent hours looking for such a plug but can't find one.
any advice appreciated. |
larry lurex Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 01:42 pm: |
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this is in addition to the previous post.
i've made some progress identifying the strange plug. here is a picture (it's the one on the left): http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=details_accessories&A=details& Q=&sku=306705&is=REG
so that's the plug i need for the aes/ebu bnc optical input of the the soundcard.
the question is - will it be compatible with the rca optical out as described above ?
thanks in advance. |
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| Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 07:42 pm: |
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This seems like a good place to ask this question.
I am trying to connect my computer to a home theatre receiver. They are about 30 feet apart. I tried using speaker wire (really) and as you might expect there was too much "noise" over the connection.
I have a pile of TV cable that I would like to use as it is shielded. Will it work if I connect RCA plugs to this type of cable? I am not trying to make a digital connection, I am just looking to shield the cable as it does pass by many electrical cables en route to the receiver.
Thanks for any advice that you may have,
Paul |
Silver Member Username: Eramsey
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| Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 09:37 pm: |
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Paul if your soundcard or computer has an RCA analog output(red-white) all you have to do is run a cable of this type for the length you need, 30' should not be a problem, and connect this to the same input on your receiver. |
New member Username: Paul343
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| Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 11:27 pm: |
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Thanks Eric,
I do have the correct type of outputs from the computer. I was only thinking of a shielded cable (like a coax cable) to prevent excess noise due to the amount of cable required.
I did try moving the computer over to the stereo and it worked well using a short cable. It does make sense to at least try a longer RCA cable first so as not to waste time with rigging a coax with RCA plugs, so I will give that a try.
Thanks for your time, I'll let you know what happens.
Paul |
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| Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 06:09 pm: |
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They say that ignorance is bliss!!
You lot must live a blissful life!!!
My apologies if anyone wrote anything interesting or even accurate after the first half of this thread but I got bored.
I'm off........................
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Silver Member Username: Eramsey
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| Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 01:15 am: |
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GOOD RIDDANCE! PLEASE DON'T COME BACK ! |
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| Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 02:22 am: |
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"Digital transmissions contain low frequency elements that travel down the centre of the conductor and high frequency elements that travel on the outside of the conductor due to the skin effect."
This, to me, is utter nonsense. I will forego this position if one of my former physics professors (or someone else with a PhD in physics) can show otherwise.
Digital signals don't carry low frequency effects. In fact, digital signals don't carry any sounds at all or have any inherent meaning. Digital signals carry INFORMATION which is interpreted and made into low frequency effects, high frequency elements, and everything in between by digital decoders/converters. This information is transmitted as a rapid sequence of voltage changes on the cable which the decoders interpret as ones or zeroes. These voltage changes are done at a carefully chosen, high-speed cadence. If there is a voltage on the wire in a given time period, you have a 1. If no voltage appears on the wire in that time period, you have a 0. This sequence of 1s and 0s has no meaning other than defined by engineers and implemented in decoders and digital-to-analog converters.
As a result of this design, a digital signal processing circuit must be able to tell whether or not there is a voltage on the line at a given moment. In the real world, voltages do not switch instantaneously. There are switching time factors involved and it is possible for a 0 to be misintrepreted as a 1 and vice-versa. Hence, the electrical properties of a cable must be such that they allow for rapid switching of voltage within the tolerance of the specification, or the whole thing will be thrown off.
Now, I'm not sure about using an RCA patch cable vs a special coaxial cable. Is a standard patch cable so far out of electrical spec that it would produce errors or not work at all? I just did a test using my own system. I replaced my expensive "digital coaxial" with a standard cheapo RCA cable and it worked no problem. My receiver immediately recognized the digital 5.1 signal and decoded it perfectly. I could tell no difference. If there were any bit flipping errors on the cable, I couldn't tell.
Still, I don't pretend that this is the definitive answer on the matter of digital coaxial vs standard RCA patch cord. I supposed that the chance of bits being misinterpreted by the receiver could be higher using an RCA patch cord, but my instinct tells me that if it works, it probably is working quite well if not perfectly.
Someone tell me where/why I'm wrong. But, do it intelligently. |
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| Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 04:27 pm: |
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I have a DVD player that I Lost The remote to...but its set to digital output  is there a converter to change it from digital coaxial to regular RCA? Thanks  |
New member Username: Paul343
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| Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:07 pm: |
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Eric:
Update. I tried several things in an attempt to free up the connection of background noise, and ended up with your solution.
I tried speaker wire (about 40 feet as it turns out) and basically made an aerial. Thinking that the problem may be a ground loop, I connected the computer to the same plug as the stereo, but no improvement.
In an attempt to shield the wire, I tried a coax cable that I had lying around. Minimal improvement. (Bad impedance I guess)
Moved the computer beside the stereo and used the CD cables. Crystal clear.
Bought shielded RCA cables (first purchase in this quest). Big improvement. Even with 44 feet of cable, the background noise is minimal.
So, thanks for your input, you were correct at the outset.
Paul |
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 02:36 am: |
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mbrown27:
At least in theory, there is a difference between the RCA cable and the coaxial cable.
Since you sound like you might be interested in a scientific explanation, I thought I should provide one.
You do understand the basics, so I’ll skip that. What is important though is that digital signal, the succession of voltage changes from 5V to 0V like you said, is after all an electric signal. As such, it is characterized by a frequency spectrum, or bandwidth.
If the digital signal would be a perfect alternation of 0’s and 1’s (0,1,0,1,0,1), then your electric signal could be looked at – in very ideal terms – as a sine, or in other words one single frequency.
However, since the digital signal looks kind of rectangular, there is more than one frequency in there. If you looked at the frequency distribution of a digital signal which consists of a perfect alternation of 0’s and 1’s, you will see that there is a main frequency, and to the left and right other frequencies of decreasing amplitude. For example, the predominant frequency could be centered at 5 MHz, and around it, decreasing, other frequencies at 4 and 6 MHz, 3 and 7 MHz, and so on.
This tends to get kind of convoluted, but what I am driving at is the fact that since in real life the digital signal is never a perfect alternation of 0’s and 1’s, there will always be a frequency distribution (spectrum) associated with a digital signal, or a bandwidth.
Now, the bandwidth of a digital signal varies significantly. Some media carry this signal better than others. There is a reason why your antenna cable is coaxial and not RCA, and that is simply the fact that coaxial cable carries better wide spectrum signals at relatively longer distances.
What that means is that some media will simply not be able to carry the whole frequency spectrum, acting pretty much like a filter, cutting out some of the frequencies, and this has an impact on how the signal will look on the receiver side.
That said, going back to the RCA vs. coaxial question, the truth is that for short distances – a few feet – there will not be a lot of loss of information due to this filtering (or in other words the receiver’s inability to decode correctly 1’s and 0’s), but there will be some nonetheless.
Here is where another feature kicks in, and that is the advanced coding algorithms. With pretty much all modern telecommunication technologies, when digital information is transmitted from point A to point B, that information is ran through some coding engines which are based on some algorithms that allow the receiving end to decode correctly the transmitted signal even if there is loss of bits on the path. Most of the times, this makes the loss of information on the path imperceptible for the human ear or eye.
Although is may sound kind of out there, this is the way this stuff works. For example, information on your CD’s is coded the same way, such that if the laser skips a block of bits, the decoding engine (algorithm) can still rebuild the original bit succession.
I am not sure if all this brought any light or confused you even more, but the bottom line is, for short distances, up to a few feet, there is no difference between the RCA and coaxial cables, but beyond that, the signal may become so garbled that even the decoding algorithms cannot pull it through. Therefore, you may want to consider a coaxial cable if you need to carry 5.1 Digital signal more than 3-5 feet away.
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 06:06 am: |
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Your quite welcome Paul,glad to be of help. Yes indeed, shielding is very important in a cable. While this is very unecessary in a speaker wire it is of paramount importance when considering the purchase of interconnect cables. mbrown27: I am quite aware of binary code I just spent the past two years of my life studying digital circuits. I am an industrial electrician, not a physics professor,sorry to disapoint,but I do have a considerable amount of training in digital circuits so I feel compelled to provide a response. While my electronics background does not qualify me as an audio expert or an authority on electronics it is probably safe to say that I know a bit more than the average layman crusing this forum. I will at least try to respond to your post. First and foremost the quote that I quoted from a website does appear on the surface to be nonsense. I merely used it as an authoratative ploy to convince others that a solid core conductor is ideal for digital transmissions. A digital transmission particularly the SPDIF is a DC voltage which is clocked and pulsed. This is contrast to a speaker output or a standard RCA audio output which is of course AC. If you measure this voltage or say the voltage on a cable or satelite tv feed it will yield a DC voltage. Since integrated circuits operate on DC,a solid conductor is best because the current will flow completely through all of the conductor. With a standard RCA analog signal current flows in both directions from the input to output and vice versa. This is not the case with a digital signal where current flow is unidirectional. I won't argue with anything in your post as your absolutely correct in the "real" world voltages don't swing instantaneously, the rate of decay is exponential. But that is the beauty of digital transmission it does not have to be absolutely 100% perfect because an IC decoder at the receiving end operates on the principle of a voltage threshold and voltages in between maximum positive and minimum negative will be designated as logic high "1" or low "0". Unfortunately given the hour this is all that I can add now, which I realize is a rather soft answer but if you like I can further elaborate at a more appropiate time. |
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Hmmm...I'm connecting a Windows Media Center PC to my receiver...and both have the digital audio output / input. Is a 'component video cable' with a 75 ohm conductor the same cable as a 'digital coax' audio cable? What's the difference? The only reason I ask is because I was going to buy a cable at www.tigerdirect.ca, but can't find a digital coax audio cable there. (25'-30' span required) Thanks in advance |
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 04:33 am: |
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I would also like to add that anon: You are spot on your post makes total sense.Solid core conductor wire is better for long distances,than stranded wire, Amen!Your right for 3' or less it should not make a difference,but how practical is that limitation? I like to keep my computer as far away from my audio system as possible. Fetts: Just use a length of RG-6 cable you need,solder a couple of RCA's on each end and run a coax digital signal if your soundcard is so equipped to do so. I think RG-6 is double shielded so this should suffice and a 30' would only cost about $20 US at least where I live. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 05:33 am: |
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Zikes!! I meant RG59 Fetts.Use a length of RG59 which is a little cheaper than RG6. I would reccomend sat RG6,however, although a bit more costly, it is more importantly doulble shielded. Most RG59 is just single braided shield then foil.
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aika-san Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 03:30 pm: |
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Just bought a Logitech z5500 5.1 setup. I'm going to hook it up to my PC's Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 soundcard. I've been reading this thread and am a 'lil confused about how it all works.
I plan to use a digital RCA <-> RCA cable and then hook that to a standard RCA <-> 3.5mm mono adapter and plug the 3.5mm plug into the SPDIF output on the soundcard and the RCA plug into the coaxial input on the Logitech speakers.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me whether this is the correct way to hook the soundcard to the speakers? |
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hi out there, can anyone help, i want to record
music from my sony minidisc,(optical and audio ins and outs)to my m audio delta 66 soundcard,without going through breakout box,ie
straight to my soundcard! the connections on the card are spdif in and spdif out. my head is cabbaged with the different info i have been given. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 08:51 pm: |
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My stereo has three ways to hook up to my DVD.
1. Component video (blue, green and red)
2. Digital out (coax digital orange plug)
3. RCA (red, white and yellow)
Questions:
A. Is 1 or 2 better?
B. Will No. 2 (coax digital orange) be sufficient for the total surround or do I need to hook up both 1 and 2 or 2 and 3? Is the one cord (coax digital orange plug) enough?
That seems too easy if I just need the orange plug.
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Chris Boul Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 12:56 pm: |
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Hi help needed please.
I have a new (a week old) Sony RDRHX 710 connected to a Philips DVD surround system (LX3950W) using the digital coaxial sockets.
The strange thing is that when I watch a dvd on the sony or when I watch a programme I've recorded on the hard drive it will play as 5.1 surround through the Philips. But when I watch a 'live' freeview programme on the sony it only plays in stereo with a loud hiss from the rear speakers. Any ideas on why this happens?
I can get 5.1 from live TV if I use the RCA connectors but then there is about a second's delay from when someone speaks to when the sound appears. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:54 pm: |
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Hi. Can anyone tell me if you can get a cable which will plug into the computers speaker input (headphone fitting)to coaxial on sub-woofer system. If so please please please email me at popmanw@aol.com |
jcampb11 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 12:30 pm: |
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Analog 5.1 discrete inputs on my HT receiver. Digital coax out on my dvd player plus the usual composite red and white outputs. Is there any way the 5.1 will get to (or better yet OUT) of my receiver?? The receiver is a Yamaha and is of the Dolby Pro logic type. |
jcampb11 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 12:30 pm: |
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Analog 5.1 discrete inputs on my HT receiver. Digital coax out on my dvd player plus the usual composite red and white outputs. Is there any way the 5.1 will get to (or better yet OUT) of my receiver?? The receiver is a Yamaha and is of the Dolby Pro logic type. |
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